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Climate Forests Campaign Responds to Anti-Forests Executive Order
Climate Forests Campaign Responds to Anti-Forests Executive Order
Climate Forests
Mar 32 min read
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Over a Million Public Comments Call for Old-Growth Forest Protections
Over 1 million people have called for stronger safeguards for National Forests. Will the Forest Service listen?
Victoria Wingell, Oregon Wild
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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Forest Service urged to strengthen protections for mature and old-growth forests in draft national old growth plan
A stream found within the proposed Grasshopper logging sale in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. Photo credit: Daniel Howland FOR...
Climate Forests
Jun 21, 20242 min read
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Forest Service urged to bolster protections for forests in proposed policy
Comments call for addressing major gaps on selling old growth and protecting mature forests. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 2,...
Climate Forests
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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Biden administration moves to protect old-growth forests
Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December...
Climate Forests
Dec 19, 20234 min read
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Native Insects and Mature Forests
Native insect outbreaks have been critical elements of cyclical forest ecology for millennia. Tree-mortality from these outbreaks creates...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20238 min read
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Mature Trees are Fire Resistant
The rate of forest fire spread is typically dictated not by the total quantity of fuels, but by the quantity of highly flammable small...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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Biodiversity Co-Benefits of Mature Forests
Mature and old-growth forests and trees provide diverse habitat for wildlife and vegetation to a degree that younger forests cannot....
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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Carbon Sequestration and Storage Capacity of Older Trees and Forests
Mature and old-growth trees and stands are powerhouses of carbon absorption and carbon storage throughout their lives and well after they...
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20238 min read
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Effects of Forest Roads on Mature and Old-Growth Forests
Roads are necessary for the administration of national forests, but not for the protection of mature and old-growth forests and trees....
Climate Forests
Oct 11, 20235 min read
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The Significance of Carbon Emissions from Logging on Federal Forests
Scientific research indicates that logging on federal forests is a substantial source of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere that...
Climate Forests
Jul 14, 20225 min read
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